Some of you golf shoes fans (or shoppers or searchers) and there are thousands and thousands of you each month (though less last month… because of my negligence recently) may have noticed that my attention and diligence on the golf shoes front has been a bit below par recently!

Well happy new year to you all … which always comes along with good intentions (like the paving on the road to hell).  My intention  is to keep Golf Shoes Blog up to date in 2011 with all the new golf shoes.  Let’s see…

Great looking golf shoes!  Just thought that I’d note them (and picture them) even if I haven’t had time to study properly…

Available in this green, silver, black and brown/orange – though I could swear that I saw these golf shoes in purple too.  Mind, they look good but they have running shoes which look better – but they won’t do the golf bit!

I’m still reeling from the unkindness of ECCO in not sending me a pair of their ladies’ golf shoes last year.  I’m still sore 12 months on…

But I like the look of these golf shoes ~ what ECCO call their “most exclusive offering, the Premium 109 collection” which is, they say, an unrivalled experience designed for those who seek the very best. Cost £2000

Now they do look good but can that price be right?  I did draft this some months ago… (could I blame them for having 33 months off from golf shoes?) I need more independent info…

Meanwhile I’m good enough to quote them… “This unique, numbered edition of rich, crocodile skin golf shoes is individually crafted and handmade-to-order by highly skilled artisans. Each of the 109 pairs to be produced is accompanied by a distinctive collector’s accessory package. This includes a crocodile leather luggage tag made from the exact same, hand-selected hides used to make the shoes (nice touch), a platinum plate with the player’s name and shoe edition number, cedar shoe trees and a gold-colored silk shoe bag.  So maybe the price is right…

Now there was news about these a year ago… Did they sell all 109 pairs of these special golf shoes?  I never got that press release… and they’re still on their site.

Do you remember that we talked about Ryan Moore quite a lot on Golf Shoes Blog ~ at first for being “unbranded” and then for rather cleverly throwing in his lot with makers in which he got a share of the whole kaboodle.  Clever boy…  Then I also wrote about the TRUE Linkswear Golf Shoes and then I had an email from the CEO of the company offering me a pair to test when they’re ready…

He said… ” Hi… we only have a dozen or so pairs of shoes on the ground in the US – Ryan has most of them and a couple of other product testers – including yours truly – have the others. I will definitely keep you in touch (I paraphrase slightly) and let you know when we have some more that can be sent out for review”. 

So of course I was quite excited about seeing and reviewing a pair of  these new and special golf shoes – for all the reasons mentioned in the introduction above and the fact that I admire Ryan Moore for this move. And the golf shoes look great.

I’m still catching up and getting the old draft news out from months ago… so this isn’t new to you but I like the look of these – at least the ladies styling.  No details but a picture of these light weight golf shoes (the clue’s in the name…)

I guess that you’d be waiting for next spring now to take these out for a clima-cool round

I can’t find prices so maybe they sold out/suspended stock till the spring.  I must get up to date.

I know that I’m supposed to write about golf shoes but after two years with only a few small gaps, I had another golf shoes holiday.  That doesn’t mean that I went on holiday with any golf shoes or even played   golf.  It just means that I had a break from writing (or even reading) about golf shoes.  But three months! Was it really that long…

So what happened in my absence?  We’ll see when I catch up with all the news and even put to bed the drafts I left all that time ago.  let’s see what’s new in the world of golf shoes… I bet most of the puff is who won what wearing what golf shoes.  “Ours” of course, they’ll say. No-one ever says well done to Johny Otherbrand who won in their shoes!

Golf Shoes Blog received this note and if it’s genuine, it’s terrible!*

“I bought a pair of walter hagen golf shoes in Sept. last year I have only worn a about 12 times and the whole sole has come unglued I took them back to Dicks they said contact the manufacturer and they would send me a new pair my problem is I can not find a contact thru all my searches”

“I hope you can help, thanks” So wrote Mark from somewhere in the ether…

Well as far as we’re concerned at Golf Shoes Blog, all Walter Hagen shoes are made for and sold by Dick’s and therefore you’re never going to find the manufacturer.  It’s what we called eother OEM (original equipment manufacturer, “own brand” or badged! (When I was in retail.)

So unless you work for Dicks you’re not going to get to the manufacturer.  Good luck.

*Being cynical, I wonder if the comment is from a rival: In which case apologies all round.

Somebody Asked For Pretty Pink Golf Shoes Like Paula’s Before: Can I find their Comment So Many Months (Years?) Later…

This is part of the Paula Creamer designed (or inspired by) Signature golf shoe range at Adidas. But when you look to buy from the range, you just see the (boring) ordinary looking ones.

And I suspect (do I really want to wade through all the trademarked acronym components to check?) that the actual golf shoe spec is pretty much as you’d expect.  But I would imagine that with the signature golf shoe range for Paula (and for Natalie) that the name and the association is quite significant along with the look and styling. Or else why would Adidas bother with the tie in?

It’s the Hi Tec DT thunder golf boot. Perhaps it’s practicality over looks.  It must be… because it’s not a looker is it.

Key to the success of this (and Hi Tec must hope it’s a success or why bother?) is it’s waterproof upper & Dri-Tec waterproof membrane with a waterproof zip closure with Velcro tab. With MEVA sockliner & Rubber outsole

So why only 1 year waterproof guarantee?

More Golf Shoe Tech& Spec:

Swingdams, rollbar, Champ Stinger III cleats & Q-Lok receptacles, traction lugs.

Copyright Nebuloni

Nebuloni have a new site for their golf shoes.  The reason I know is that someone wrote in to Golf Shoes Blog to ask where you can get these golf shoes and I thought surely the previous posts have a link.  But that link is now dead (I’ve changed it on that post and it’s the correct one above.

At the site you can see thes lovely “California” golf shoes for ladies and gents.  There extra info there and images (including the golf shoe sole and spike choice – 11 spikes).

You can also view a CNN slot about the Milan golf shoemaker. These guys are making just 20 pairs a day at the most – so they’re not mass market.  Thye’ve made them for 100 years as a family firm.  There’s no sales outlets lsied for this reason (I think). So the way to get your Nebuloni golf shoes is to phone them or email: Tel +39.0331.559129 – gigi@nebulonigolf.com